Category: Photography
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The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths – The New York Times
The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths Heji Shin’s striking, discomfiting work poses an important question for the contemporary age: What do we expect art to do, and does the artist have a responsibility to do it? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/t-magazine/heji-shin-photographer-babies.html Heji Shin’s striking, discomfiting work poses an important question for the contemporary age: What do we expect art…
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The Photographer Peeking at Your Phone | The New Yorker
The Photographer Peeking at Your Phone Jeff Mermelstein’s photo collection “#nyc” captures the quotidian dramas taking place on the phone screens of unsuspecting strangers. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photographer-peeking-at-your-phone In October of 2017, the photographer Jeff Mermelstein, who has been taking pictures of New York City street life since the early nineteen-eighties, was walking in…
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Joel Meyerowitz’s Five Tips for Making Great Street Photographs | AnOther
Joel Meyerowitz’s Five Tips for Making Great Street Photographs via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12772/joel-meyerowitz-guide-to-photography-how-i-make-photographs-book Legendary image-maker Joel Meyerowitz shares his advice for aspiring photographers, as his new book How I Make Photographs is published
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Photography Workshops in 2020: Where Do We Go From Here? – PhotoShelter Blog
Photography Workshops in 2020: Where Do We Go From Here? – PhotoShelter Blog Find out how major photography workshop organizations have changed their 2020 plans due to COVID-19. Plus, take a look at who’s still in session. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/08/2020-photography-workshops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 While we typically bring you a list of 40+ workshops to consider, we’re changing…
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Selling Your Photography Just Got Easier with Google Image Licensing – PhotoShelter Blog
Selling Your Photography Just Got Easier with Google Image Licensing – PhotoShelter Blog PhotoShelter General Manager Grover Sanschagrin explains Google’s new Image Licensing program and how to get set up to sell your photography. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/08/sell-photos-with-google-image-licensing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 I am excited about the new Google Image Licensing program, and you should be too. Let me…
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Photographers on Photographers: Saleem Ahmed in Conversation With Baljit Singh | LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Saleem Ahmed in Conversation With Baljit Singh Baljit Singh and I are Internet friends. We haven’t met in real life, nor do we really message each other all that often. I only know her through the details that she shares — the visuals she posts and the words she writes. I think…
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The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country – The New York Times
The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/t-magazine/amber-pinkerton-photography.html The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity.
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this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture
this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas Kuruganti’s five day experiment turned the personal public, exploring the fluidity of narrative and the boundaries of the archive via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/srinivas-kuruganti-this-archive-has-no-legs Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas…
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Limiting and Reflecting on my Digital Output – by Simon King – 35mmc
Limiting and Reflecting on my Digital Output – by Simon King Before the widespread use of recorded sound, if you were a music aficionado with a favored piece of baroque music you would be lucky if you heard it more than a handful of times in your lifetime. The circumstances of the orchestra necessary to…
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The photography school for children on the Syrian border
The photography school for children on the Syrian border Sirkhane Darkroom teaches vulnerable communities how the act of documentation can help them to process their own experience. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/sirkhane-darkroom-photography-school-syria-turkey/ As the Director of Sirkhane Darkroom, photographer Serbest Salih teaches young people from vulnerable communities – many of them refugees – how to use…
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Justine Kurland Reflects on Her Photographs of Teenage Girl Runaways – Aperture Foundation NY
Justine Kurland Reflects on Her Photographs of Teenage Girl Runaways Between 1997 and 2002, the photographer portrayed teenage girls as imagined rebels, offering a radical vision of community and feminism against the masculine myth of the American landscape. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/justine-kurland-girl-pictures/ Between 1997 and 2002, the photographer portrayed teenage girls as imagined rebels,…
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Magnum Photos Nominates Five Photographers to Join Its Organization
Magnum Photos Nominates Five Photographers to Join Its Organization Magnum, which is entirely owned by photographers, started its historic membership program back in 1955. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/574749/magnum-photos-nominates-five-photographers-to-join-organization/ This year, Magnum presents five new prospects, who will first join the organization as nominees before potentially gaining admission to the Magnum collective as lifelong members. The international…
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What I Learned at the Most Instagrammed Outdoor Places | Outside Online
What I Learned from Visiting the Most Instagrammed Outdoor Places Are social media and selfie culture killing the outdoors? Nah… but as a visit to some overshared spots reveals, they’re challenging our notions about whether there’s a right way to appreciate nature—and who gets to do it. via Outside Online: https://www.outsideonline.com/2415324/instagram-social-media-geotagging-outdoors-oversharing Are social media and…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 26 June 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 26 June 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Australia’s premier photo collective Oculi welcomes nine new members and the exhibition APA Stories competition which celebrates long… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-26-june-2020/ Australia’s premier photo collective has doubled its membership with the announcement of nine new members:
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80+ Black Photographers Come Together for a Historic Print Sale – Feature Shoot
80+ Black Photographers Come Together for a Historic Print Sale – Feature Shoot The See in Black collective, a coalition of 80 Black photographers dedicated to uplifting and advocating for Black visibility, is hosting a limited, two-week print sale, with support from Artifact… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/06/80-black-photographers-come-together-for-a-historic-print-sale/ The See in Black collective, a coalition of…
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Why Photo Editors Need to Hire Black Photographers Every Day – Aperture Foundation NY
Why Photo Editors Need to Hire Black Photographers Every Day And not only during a crisis. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/talks-interviews/why-photo-editors-need-to-hire-black-photographers-every-day/ I recently spoke with Scruggs and three other Black photo editors and photographers about covering this moment and what needs to change: Lynsey Weatherspoon, a photographer based in Atlanta; Wale Agboola, a photographer based…
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Over 1000 Black photographers to hire, commission, follow and support
Over 1000 Black photographers to hire, commission, follow and support Separated into two tabs, this Google sheet first highlights over 300 photographers currently covering protests and the second shines a light on over 700 photographers to hire and support. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/over-350-black-photographers-to-hire-and-support-photography-080620?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 From portrait, journalism, fashion, fine art, travel, wedding, sports and music photography – just…
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New Guide! The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography – PhotoShelter Blog
New Guide! The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography – PhotoShelter Blog As photographers, we have a moral obligation to listen to and understand a story first before trying to tell it. But are we considering how our perspectives or personal experiences may affect our approach to telling the story? Today, we’re thrilled to pre via…
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Kamoinge: The story behind the world’s longest-running photo collective
Kamoinge: The story behind the world’s longest-running photo collective In November 1963, just months before apartheid in America was finally outlawed, two groups of black photographers based in Harlem came together to form the Kamoinge Workshop. It went on to become the longest-running photography collective in the world. T via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/kamoinge-inside-the-worlds-longest-running-photo-collective/ Founded in…
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Is African Photography a State of Mind? – Aperture Foundation NY
Is African Photography a State of Mind? In a biennial and two recent photobooks, artists consider the postcolonial African subject through intriguingly intimate images. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/african-photography-state-of-mind/ In a biennial and two recent photobooks, artists consider the postcolonial African subject through intriguingly intimate images.